MTL - Monster Hunt: Notes From a Hunter-Chapter 765 running in the sea of ​​trees

  Chapter 765 Running in the Sea of ​​Trees

  The airship slowly descended into the clouds.

  The sea of ​​trees, as vast as a real ocean but with dark green waves, appeared in the sight of the hunters.

  The recent continuous rainfall has filled the exaggeratedly lush vegetation in the sea of ​​trees with water, and even formed a thick white mist similar to clouds. Taking a deep breath, it feels like drinking saliva.

  The heavily armed hunters gathered on the deck, waiting for the empty boat to land.

   Gail scratched his wet black wavy hair, looked at the tiny water droplets on his exposed skin, and said distressedly:

   "It's too humid here, the humidity is comparable to the wetlands in the rainy season, right? I knew I should get a waterproof cloak, or bring a bottle of skin oil or something."

   It's not that she suddenly became fond of skin care, but that it's not a good thing to expose a large area of ​​skin for a long time in an environment that is more like a rainforest than a dense forest.

  Mosquitoes and leeches will come to your door, and once a breach occurs on the skin, skin diseases such as eczema and ulceration will follow.

  Put on the priest-like visor, with only his eyes exposed, Anshir gave Gail a sideways glance, walked to Gale, who had changed his job as a beast of burden, rummaged around, took out a bottle of ointment and threw it to her.

  Gail caught it subconsciously, uncorked the bottle and smelled it, and said in shock, "It's really skin oil? Why did you even prepare this?"

  Anshir was too lazy to answer this question.

   No matter how you say this guy is helping himself, Gail swallowed back his vomit, muttered "thank you", poured out the ointment and wiped it.

   After a while, her exposed skin became oily, and with her messy mix-and-match outfit, she looked unspeakably weird.

   But being a typical pragmatist, she doesn't care.

  This medicinal ointment extracted from the sebum of Draperosaurus is very effective in preventing mosquito bites, treating skin diseases and burns, etc. At least these days, you don’t have to worry about rainforest disease.

  Gail corked the bottle tightly, and handed back the remaining half of the bottle of skin oil.

  Anshir shook his hand in disgust, "You keep it, I brought more than one bottle."

   "..."

   "I saw the ancient pagoda!" Fengying standing at the bow suddenly called out.

   Everyone looked together.

  Through the thick water mist covering the sea of ​​trees, one can vaguely see the cylindrical giant with a diameter of nearly 100 meters and a height of more than 200 meters thousands of meters away.

  Hilda glanced over there and shook her head, "That's not an ancient tower, it's a withered giant tree with only part of its trunk left."

   "...ah?" Fengying opened her mouth wide, "You said it was a tree?"

"Huhu, yes." Hilda smiled and said, "I was surprised when I first learned about it, and I don't know what it looked like when it flourished, but it was at least a thousand years ago. Amazing, right?"

   "Is that always an ancient tower?" Gordon put down his binoculars, pointed in another direction, and said half-jokingly, "Don't tell me that's also a tree?"

  In the direction of the airship, an ancient giant tower deep into the clouds stands there. Although the tower is broken, the whole is still as stable as a mountain, like a giant pillar supporting the sky.

   "That's it." Hilda picked up the horned bow and said with a smile, "I hope the monster we need to face lives at the bottom of the tower instead of the top. I can't climb so high, old aunt."

   "Didn't you pay back the time you ambush Tianhuilong?"

"Shut up! Don't say such an unlucky thing!" Hilda glared at Gordon, and then raised her voice to the pilot of the airboat: "Find a place to land, put us down and wait for us at the camp, if after five days and nights Still no news from us, return to the guild headquarters for help."

  The pilot who belonged to the guild nodded, and manipulated the airship to lower the altitude. It took a long time to find an open space in the forest that could barely allow the airship to descend.

   Even so, the continuous fog and rain, the net-like vines entangled in the trunks and crowns, and various vegetation on the ground made it difficult for the airship to land completely.

   had no choice but to hover in mid-air more than ten meters above the ground, and let the hunters search for the landing place.

   It’s just suffering from Gale and Amber, as tooth hounds, they have suffered too much that they shouldn’t have to bear

  After landing on the ground, Nanaxi was the first to jump onto Huber's back.

  Pork Chop Pandan could understand the urgency and anxiety in its heart, and didn't hesitate. The advance rescue and reconnaissance team composed of three cats and one dog set off immediately.

  With the speed and agility of the tooth hounds, they should be able to reach the ruins of the ancient tower within an hour. As long as Jin is still alive, they will definitely find him quickly and start rescue and medical treatment as soon as possible.

  The hunters also set off quickly. Due to the severe restriction of sight in the dense forest, they formed a relatively compact triangular formation.

  Gordon and Fengying took turns to open the way, Hayata was in the rear, and the three shooters were protected by them in the center of the triangle formation, so as to avoid sudden attacks from monsters lurking in the shadows of the trees, and to facilitate mutual support at any time.

  The Feng Leong area where Batu Batum Sea of ​​Trees is located is isolated overseas. For Gordon and others, and even the entire guild, it is a nearly brand new hunting ground.

  The distribution, population, and quantity of various monsters are unknown. Even the camp was newly established not long ago. It is impossible to predict when and where monsters may be encountered.

  I heard from Hilda when I was on the airship that there are still scattered indigenous villages in this amazingly vast sea of ​​trees.

  They are almost completely decoupled from mainstream society, but they are not "primitives".

  These Shuhai residents have mastered many special biotechnology and alchemy techniques that the mainstream society cannot understand, and even developed their own unique "hunter-like" fighters.

   This made Gordon and others quite curious.

  Of course, it's just curiosity. The technology and life of the residents of the Sea of ​​Trees has nothing to do with the purpose of the hunters' trip, so they naturally won't go out of their way.

  Following the footprints and pathfinding information left by the pork chop amber, the hunters went all the way.

  The overgrown vegetation in the sea of ​​trees and the unpleasant rain and fog made this section of the road more difficult than expected.

   It took more than three or four hours for the hunters to pass through the tree sea area, which is less than 10,000 meters away in a straight line, and come to the ancient pagoda ruins.

  The thick and soft, sponge-like humus soil surface gradually became flat and hard, traces of man-made objects such as bricks and stones began to appear, and the vegetation became more and more sparse.

  Bypassing the last big tree, the hunters rushed out of the vast sea of ​​trees.

  The white moonlight shone on them, and when they looked up at the full moon that seemed to be hanging on the side of the ancient pagoda, they suddenly realized.

  The rain has stopped.

  However, the mist covering the ruins has no intention of dissipating. It still reflects the moonlight like a gauze, reflecting everything hazy.

   Gordon, who was in charge of opening the road, slowed down, and the whole team gradually stopped.

  He intends to let everyone rest in place for ten minutes, eat and rest for a while, and then go deep into the ruins and enter the ancient tower to start exploring.

   At this moment, a vague but sharp sense of danger surfaced in his heart.

   "It's not right!" He turned around abruptly and reminded his partners loudly, but this seemed a little redundant.

   He wasn't the only one who sensed the danger. Before he could make a sound, the three sharp-sensing shooters had already deployed their weapons.

Hayata, who was at the back of the team, also suddenly turned around and drew his sword out of its sheath. With the strength of his body rotation, Ye Dao [Moon Shadow] cut down obliquely with his cassock, and collided with some invisible sharp blade , issued a piercing clank.

   "Clang!"

  A faint blue swift figure emerged from the mist under the moonlight, and the failure of the sneak attack made it scream angrily.

   "Gaah—!"

   "Is this delivered by yourself?"

  Gordon was about to pull out the big sword, but was stopped by Hilda raising his hand, "This is our prey, and there are six of them, don't you think it's too unlucky?"

  Gordon grinned, "Okay, then I'll leave this place to you, Anshir, Fengying, let's go!"

  Yue Xunlong's deterrent roar.

Hayata poured down a bottle of ghost potion and swung his blade upwards. Hilda put down her black veil mask, and her breath became erratic. Gail pulled the trigger with a strange smile, and hurriedly The astonishing roar of the ballista resounded through the night sky.

   "chug chug chug chug!"

  Ps.

   The so-called aborigines living in the dense forest in this chapter actually refer to the early abolition case of MH, which has not appeared in the main story, so please don't take it seriously.

   But to be honest, some unconstrained settings are really interesting. If you are interested, you can also write two or three chapters to enrich the worldview 0v0

In fact, it can be seen from the setting book that the worldview established in the early days of the series is more primitive, and the technology is more biased towards biological applications. For example, the front end of the hollow fruit is cut off with a knife, and the gunpowder and warhead are loaded into the crossbow. It's a paralysis trap.

   Since 4, it has been leaning towards the era of the industrial revolution, various steam machines, large airships

   MHR is a bit of a return to "biotechnology", but it seems that the direction is not the same? Mysterious hunting creature emmmmm

  (end of this chapter)